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Arthur Hadfield Fisher (11 February 1871 – 23 March 1961) was a New Zealand cricketer, golfer and businessman.

Arthur Fisher

Arthur Fisher in about 1898
Personal information
Full name	Arthur Hadfield Fisher
Born	(1871-02-11)11 February 1871 Nelson, New Zealand
Died	23 March 1961(1961-03-23) (aged 90) Dunedin, New Zealand
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Left-arm medium
International information
National side	New Zealand
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1890/91–1909/10	Otago
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 46 Runs scored 1,079 Batting average 14.98 100s/50s 0/4 Top score 76 Balls bowled Wickets 197 Bowling average 16.38 5 wickets in innings 11 10 wickets in match 1 Best bowling 9/50 Catches/stumpings 26/0
Source: Cricinfo, 17 September 2014

Life and career

Fisher was born at Nelson, New Zealand and was educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin.[1][2] He played for Otago from 1890–91 to 1909-10 as a left-arm medium-pace bowler, taking 197 wickets at an average of 16.38. Against a touring Queensland cricket team in 1896–97 he took 9 for 50 in the first innings, an Otago record for innings bowling figures.[2][3]

Fisher represented New Zealand, in the days before New Zealand had Test status, in matches against Australian and English teams. The Australians were so impressed with his bowling on their tour of New Zealand in 1896 that they invited him to try out for the Australian Test team in 1897–98. He went to Melbourne and practised there, but was unable to reproduce his New Zealand form on the harder Australian pitches, and was not selected in the Australian team.[4] Against a touring MCC side in Wellington in 1906–07, he took 4 for 25 and 5 for 61 in a 56-run victory for New Zealand.[5]

Fisher won the New Zealand Amateur golf championship in 1904, beating George MacEwan 3&2 in the final.[6] He had been Otago champion the previous year.[2]

Personal life

On 15 December 1896, at St Peter's Anglican Church in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham, Fisher married Janet Graeme Rollo Brodrick. Following her death on 23 September 1928, he married Elizabeth Charlotte Farrant in the same church on 16 December 1930. There were no children of either marriage. Elizabeth died on 15 December 1957 and Arthur died in Dunedin on 23 March 1961, aged 90.[1]

References

External links

• Arthur Fisher at ESPNcricinfo

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